YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed
YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed
YouTube Shorts 更新：新增两倍速播放功能，让短视频“更短”
YouTube is rolling out a series of changes to Shorts, including a new method that lets users shrink the duration of short-form videos. The Google-owned platform announced Thursday that Shorts now comes with a setting that allows users to double their playback speed. The point of making what is an already brief experience even briefer is to let users “absorb information more quickly or find your favorite part faster,” the platform said.
YouTube 正在为 Shorts 推出一系列更新，其中包括一种让用户缩短短视频观看时长的新方法。这家谷歌旗下的平台周四宣布，Shorts 现在新增了一项设置，允许用户以两倍速度播放视频。该平台表示，将原本就简短的体验进一步压缩，旨在让用户能够“更快地获取信息或更快地找到自己喜欢的部分”。
In an apparent bid for a more positive web, YouTube has also nixed the Shorts dislike button. Instead of disliking a video, users will now have to rely on the “Not Interested” and “Don’t recommend this channel” functions to disincentivize certain kinds of content. Similarly, instead of clicking on a thumb’s up button if they like a video, users will now have access to a heart emoji.
为了营造一个更积极的网络环境，YouTube 还取消了 Shorts 的“不喜欢”（dislike）按钮。用户现在不能再对视频点“踩”，而是需要通过“不感兴趣”（Not Interested）和“不推荐此频道”（Don’t recommend this channel）功能来减少特定类型内容的出现。同样，如果用户喜欢某个视频，现在也不再是点击“点赞”按钮，而是可以使用心形表情符号。
Finally, YouTube is also introducing a new “Clear Screen mode,” which is designed to temporarily hide “all icons and text from your playback view,” giving users a clean view of their content unencumbered by floating distractions. All of these changes have been made in the service of creating “a more intuitive Shorts experience,” the company said.
最后，YouTube 还引入了一种全新的“清屏模式”（Clear Screen mode），旨在暂时隐藏“播放界面上的所有图标和文字”，让用户在观看内容时不受悬浮干扰，获得更纯净的视觉体验。该公司表示，所有这些改动都是为了打造“更直观的 Shorts 体验”。
It’s not exactly clear when the updates will take effect. The company said that the features would be rolling out over time, but didn’t give exact dates. TechCrunch reached out to Google for more information.
目前尚不清楚这些更新的具体生效时间。该公司表示这些功能将逐步推出，但未给出确切日期。TechCrunch 已联系谷歌以获取更多信息。
YouTube was late to the short-form video space (it launched Shorts in 2024, several years after the launch of TikTok and Instagram Reels), but has managed to attract an audience since then. YouTube Shorts was averaging 200 billion daily views as of June 2025, CEO Neal Mohan said at his keynote in Cannes last year. (We may qualify this impressive metric with the context that YouTube counts a “view” as the very first moment that a video is opened.)
YouTube 进入短视频领域的时间较晚（它在 2024 年才推出 Shorts，比 TikTok 和 Instagram Reels 晚了几年），但自那以后成功吸引了大量用户。YouTube 首席执行官 Neal Mohan 在去年戛纳的演讲中表示，截至 2025 年 6 月，YouTube Shorts 的日均观看量已达 2000 亿次。（我们需要补充说明的是，YouTube 将视频打开的最初瞬间即计为一次“观看”。）
A report earlier this year showed that Shorts were increasingly being watched on viewers’ TV screens — and that as much as 2 billion hours of such content was being consumed per month.
今年早些时候的一份报告显示，越来越多的用户开始在电视屏幕上观看 Shorts，每月此类内容的观看时长高达 20 亿小时。